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setback to the Narendra Modi government, the Ahmedabad metropolitan
magistrate, S.P. Tamang, has ruled that the June 2004 killing of
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In the aftermath of Gujarat carnage
the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee subtly reprimanded
Modi Governemtn that Raj Dharma should have been followed. The
implication was that state should have actively intervened to
protect the innocents who were killed during the violence. What will
one say if the same state selectively picks up innocent citizens,
kills them and presents false stories to save its skin? While taking
the oath, while joining the state one is supposed to treat all
citizens as equal irrespective of their religion caste and gender.
What do we say about the state, which goes on to kill its innocent
citizens who happen to belong to minority community?

As the Citizen’s Tribunal pointed out
in the aftermath of Godhra train burning Gujarat State machinery was
told to sit back when the rioters were unleashed to kill and maim,
to loot and to rape during the carnage. Now we know that in the same
state, police officers have become emboldened enough to pick up
minority elements, kill them in cold blood and proclaim that it is
an encounter! The repeated cry of terrorists planning to kill Modi
has been a favorite ploy of the police officers for killing
innocents to please the CM, to seek promotions. It also helps to
create a larger than life picture of Modi.

When Ishrat Jahan was killed in the
June 2005, along with three others, the police officers boasted of
their success that they have ably averted the attack on Modi by
killing four terrorists of Lashkar-e-Tayyaba. Forensic and post
mortem reports confirm that they were killed in cold blood on 14th
June, shot at close range in a police custody and then, taken in a
car, then put in a row on the road on the outskirts of Ahmadabad. To
show that it was encounter, arms-ammunition was kept on their body.
At this point of time National Human Rights Commission asked for
magisterial inquiry. Later state Government also confirmed of
magisterial inquiry going on. At the same time the police
investigation was also started.

Justice Tamang has come out with his
report that it was not an encounter and that the four killed in cold
blood by police were not having any terrorist links. In response the
Gujarat government is leaving no stone unturned to say that Justice
Tamang had no business to release his report, the Gujarat high court
has brought a stay on the report. But already the contents of the
report are known through the media reports and Gujarat Government is
finding no place to hide its face, also Supreme Court has seen
nothing wrong in what Justice Tamang did. The total lack of remorse
on the part of Gujarat Government is not surprising at all!

The officer, D. G.Vanjara, who killed
these four, was also the one who had brutally killed Soharabbudin
and his wife Kauserbi, and is now behind the bars. There is a
section of Gujarat people, who are very appreciative of what Vnajara
has done, and the situation which Modi Government has brought in.
Now the Gujarat Government asks that when the police inquiry was
going on, what is the legality of magisterial inquiry? On the
contrary as per the law after the death of a person in police
custody, or due to police action of this type, inquest, magisterial
inquiry and police inquiry all these have to be done.

It is not that it is the first time
that encounter, fake encounter killings, are taking place. The
difference here is the total identification and defense of such acts
by the political leadership of state. The difference is that a
section of people are being made to believe such dastardly acts are
needed to make the society safe.

The effort of Gujarat Government is
just to show a brave face in the light of exposure of its brutality
in killing the innocents. Incidentally Ishrat was wearing her
college, Khalsa College Mumbai, Identity Card around her neck when
she was killed in cold blood. Legal nuances and nitty gritty apart
where are we heading in twenty in Twenty-first Century?

Just slightly an year ago in the face
of police arrest of many Muslim youth in the aftermath of bomb
blasts citizens tribunals were held in Hyderabad and then in Jaipur.
Legal luminaries and social activists formed the jury of these
tribunals. Both tribunals pointed out that the attitude of police is
very biased and many a Muslim youth are being arrested without any
proof whatsoever. Will such actions by state, will such a defense of
killing of innocents, not intensify the sense of injustice amongst a
section of Indian citizens?

Where are we heading to? On one hand
there are inquiry commission reports showing as to how communal
organizations orchestrate crimes and the section of police and part
of state administration colludes. On the other plane there is the
phenomenon of terrorism, which has many factors contributing to it
but it is only Muslims who are blamed for that. We are also
witnessing a serious and by now inbuilt discrimination leading to
exclusion of minorities from the social facilities. In such an
atmosphere what will happen to the psyche of the youth and others
from minority community? The social disparities we are creating due
to such policies are there for all of us to see. The tragedy is that
a section of people have started asserting the correctness of these
happenings. The situation which is being created due to all this is
further used to blame minorities for it. The Modi-Vanjara duo, which
is becoming a law unto them, is the symptom of deeper malaise of
Gujarat.

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